I made soup tonight. I had never made soup before. We had ham on Christmas and I had the shank left over with lots of meat on it. So, I made Split Pea Soup. Pretty simple actually. All you do is saute some chopped onions, celery and carrots in a little butter in a large pot, add the peas, some marjoram and water. Drop the entire ham shank in there, bring it to a boil and let it cook stirring often for 70 minutes. You take the shank out and trim off the good meat and dice it and set it aside. You then take the soup mixture and puree it in a food processor until nice and smooth. Put it all back in the pot, add the diced ham, salt and pepper to taste and voile. Big thumbs up from both the wife and my son. In fact, I believe I heard the words "delicious" and "mmmmmmm" several times. And the kid is a foodie. Has no problem telling me when something I made sucked. Fortunately I don't hear that very often.
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